2016 Jakarta attacks

The 2016 Jakarta attacks occurred from 10:40 AM to 3:30 PM on 14 January 2016 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Four attackers affiliated with the Islamic State terrorist group carried out suicide bombings and shootings in the city, killing 4 others before all of them were killed.

Background
The Islamic State group mostly carried out attacks in Syria, Iraq, and the Middle East during its reign of terror in the 2010s, with a few attacks on the West including the November 2015 Paris attacks and the 2015 San Bernardino attack. However, Indonesian ISIS member Bahrun Naim returned to his homeland to mastermind a terrorist attack against the Indonesian government, which had already been fighting terrorism from the Jemaah Islamiyah and Abu Sayyaf terrorist groups. Naim recruited Dian Juni Kurniadi, Afif Sunakim, Ahmad Muhazab Saron, and Muhammad Ali Marwan into his Katibah Nusantara ISIS cell, and their goal was to launch deadly attacks in Central Jakarta against both foreigners and Indonesian civilians to show that the Islamic State had reached Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean.

Attacks
At 10:40 AM on 14 January 2016, a traffic police post near the entrance to a Starbucks and Burger King was damaged by many explosions, including a suicide attack. Grenades were thrown at the police station and men were shot at, with gunfire and explosions being heard from nearby. Another explosion went off in front of the Sarinah Mall shopping center near the United Nations office, and attackers Afif Sunakim and Muhammad Ali Marwan fired on a crowd of people on the Jalan M.H. Thamrin near a damaged police post. They shot at two policemen and hurled hand grenades at them, and the crowd dispersed as a result of the gunfire. Sunakim and Marwan took an Algerian and a Dutchman as a hostage and held them in the Skyline Building's fourth-level parking lot, where they engaged in a firefight with police and were killed.

Four attackers were killed in the Jakarta attacks, and one Canadian of Algerian descent and three Indonesian civilians were killed in the attack. On 16 January, 12 people connected to the attack were arrested by the government, which accused them of planning further attacks. This was the Islamic State's first claimed attack in the region and the first sign of ISIS in the region.